Cheaper than free.
Then we get your money back.
UpShipit buys carrier capacity at wholesale and prices labels below Pirate Ship’s carrier-funded rate — so “no fee” stops mattering. Then we audit your carrier invoices and recover the refunds you’re owed. Lower rates, recovered dollars, less work.
No monthly fee to start • Free invoice audit • You only share recovered dollars
The only number that matters: cost per parcel
“Free software” is a framing, not a discount. Here’s the all-in rate, side by side.
| Sample shipment | Carrier retail | Pirate Ship | UpShipit | You save |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| USPS Ground Advantage — 1 lb, Zone 4 | $8.92 | $5.74 | $5.41 | $0.33 |
| USPS Priority — 3 lb, Zone 6 | $14.30 | $9.85 | $9.12 | $0.73 |
| UPS Ground — 5 lb, Zone 5 | $16.78 | $11.42 | $10.63 | $0.79 |
| USPS Priority — 1 lb, Zone 8 | $13.05 | $8.61 | $7.98 | $0.63 |
Illustrative rates. Actual pricing depends on your volume and destinations — we’ll quote your real numbers.
One screen for your whole shipping operation
Rate savings, recovered dollars, at-risk claims, and every shipment — live in the Command Center the moment a warehouse operator signs in.
Carriers owe you money.
We get it back for you.
Carriers gutted their money-back guarantees in 2025 — so the real money is the durable errors that never went away: inflated dimensional weights, bogus residential and address-correction surcharges, duplicate charges, void credits, and lost/no-POD parcels. Every one is money sitting on your invoice. Pirate Ship, Easyship, and ShipStation help you buy labels — none of them claw the overcharges back. UpShipit reconciles your invoices, manifest, and tracking line by line, then files every claim on a tamper-proof, hash-chained evidence ledger — so each dollar we recover is backed by proof a carrier can’t wave away.
- DIM-weight, residential & address-correction surcharge errors
- Fuel-surcharge, DAS & accessorial overbilling
- Duplicate & voided / unused-label credits
- No-POD shipments and zone / rate / discount errors
- Late-delivery (guaranteed service) refunds — where carriers still guarantee
- Contract benchmarking — are your rates actually competitive?
We ingest from every angle: raw carrier invoices & EDI 210, the carrier tracking APIs, your WMS / 3PL manifest, ShipStation, and your returns platform — then resolve a per-account source-of-truth so a charge is never double-counted and a claim is never phantom. See integrations →
Free to audit. You only share a percentage of dollars we actually recover.
Estimate your refunds in ten seconds
Up to 5% of FedEx and UPS invoices contain billing errors — wrong surcharges, inflated dimensional weights, and late deliveries. Enter your monthly spend to see what we’d typically claw back over a year.
Most refund services keep up to half of your money
Share-a-Refund, Refund Retriever, 71lbs and the rest charge a contingency fee of up to 50% of everything they recover — and they only ever see your carrier invoice. Here’s how UpShipit is built differently.
- Take up to 50% of every dollar they recover
- See your carrier invoice only — no warehouse or order data
- Bill you on credits you can’t always verify line-by-line
- Still lead with late-delivery refunds — shrinking fast in 2026
- Manual or weekly queues that can miss the 15-day dispute window
- Onboarding ends at “connect a carrier login”
- Performance-based fee — a smaller share, so you keep more
- Audits carrier invoices against your WMS / ERP — real carton dims & addresses
- Only billed against credits line-item-linked to your carrier statement
- Surcharge & DIM errors first — where the recoverable money is now
- Automated — every invoice audited inside the 15-day dispute window
- Plugs into carriers + ERP-embedded WMS (Sage 500, MSSQL, no public API)
The reason the “connect-your-login” tools settle for half: an invoice alone can’t prove a carton’s real dimensions or that an address was commercial. We audit with your warehouse’s ground truth — so we win the disputes they can’t, and don’t need to take half.
You have days, not weeks, to claim what you’re owed
Carriers bill weekly — and the window to dispute a charge or file a refund slams shut almost as fast. Miss it by a day and the money is theirs forever. A manual audit can’t keep up; automation ingests, audits, and files before the deadline, every cycle.
Weekly invoices + 15-day windows = no room for a manual review. By the time a spreadsheet audit finds a late delivery or a duplicate charge, the claim window is often already closed. UpShipit watches every cycle automatically and files the moment an error is detectable — so the deadline is never the reason you lost a refund.
Every overcharge. Every deadline. One audit panel.
The audit & recovery screen surfaces every dispute, tracks its claim window, and shows exactly how much has been recovered — so nothing slips through.
Cheapest rate, fastest label, zero friction
The rate shopper compares every carrier in real time. The orders grid scans and buys in bulk. Two screens that replace three different tools.
Route every parcel to its cheapest path
The optimization engine scores each shipment across carriers, zones, and service levels — then routes it to the combination that hits your delivery promise for the least cost.
Visibility from dispatch to doorstep
Live tracking and returns in one pane. Analytics that show where cost and delay actually come from.
From warehouse floor to carrier pickup
Pick-and-pack workflows, box size automation, and CSV import — everything between order and handoff.
One login. The whole shipping problem.
Lower rates, automatic recovery, rate shopping, automation, optimization, and analytics — everything you piece together from three other tools today.
Lower rates than "free"
We buy carrier capacity at wholesale and mark it up to a price that still lands below Pirate Ship’s carrier-funded rate. You pay less per label — every label.
Automatic invoice audit
We ingest your carrier invoices and flag every late delivery, duplicate charge, void credit, and surcharge error — the money carriers quietly keep.
Refund recovery on autopilot
Detected errors are filed as claims and tracked to credit. Cash you already spent comes back to your account. Free to audit; you only share recovered dollars.
Rate shopping + automation
Best Value / Cheapest / Fastest on every shipment, plus IF/THEN automation rules to assign services, add insurance, and tag orders without lifting a finger.
Ongoing optimization
Service downgrades, zone skipping, and DIM right-sizing surface as dollar-ranked opportunities. We benchmark your contract so you know if your rates are actually competitive.
Tracking, returns & analytics
Branded tracking pages, a self-serve returns portal, and a Shipping Cost Report paired with a Recovery Report — spend and savings in one view.
How UpShipit compares
Cheaper labels and the audit no one else runs.
| Feature | UpShipit | Pirate Ship | Easyship | ShipStation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| All-in cost per parcel | Lowest | Low | Mid | Mid |
| Software fee | None to start | None | $0–69/mo | $15–350/mo |
| Carrier-invoice audit | ||||
| Automatic refund recovery | ||||
| Rate shopping | ||||
| Automation rules (IF/THEN) | Basic | |||
| Orders grid + scan workflow | Batch only | |||
| Optimization (zone skip, DIM, downgrade) | Partial | |||
| Contract benchmarking | ||||
| Branded tracking + returns | ||||
| Carriers | USPS/UPS/FedEx/DHL | USPS/UPS | 550+ | 250+ |
Shippers who did the math
We switched off Pirate Ship and our per-label cost dropped about 7%. Then the audit recovered $4,100 in late-delivery refunds in the first month — money UPS was never going to volunteer.
The "cheaper than free" thing sounded like marketing. It is not. The all-in rate is genuinely lower, and the recovery report pays for itself.
Rate shopping plus automation rules cut our handling time in half, and the optimization tab told us we were on the wrong service for 30% of orders. Easy fix, real savings.
Ship for less.
Get the rest back.
Send us a recent carrier invoice and we’ll show you two numbers: how much cheaper your labels would be on UpShipit, and how much we can recover from what you’ve already paid.